Arıtaş Kriyojenik

Following the failure to reach an agreement in the collective labour agreement negotiations between the Birleşik Metal-İş union and the Turkish Metal Industrialists' Union (MESS) for Hitachi Energy, Grid Solutions, Schneider Electric and Arıtaş Kriyojenik workplaces for the 2024-2026 period, a strike decision was taken. In addition, after the failure to reach an agreement in the collective bargaining negotiations with Green Transfo, which is not covered by MESS, a strike was announced to start on 25 December at the company's factory in Gebze, Kocaeli.

Upon the failure to reach an agreement by the announced date, strikes started on 4 December 2022 at Hitachi Energy's plants in Kartal, Ümraniye and Tuzla districts of Istanbul and Dilovası district of Kocaeli, and on 13 December at Grid Solutions' plants in Gebze district of Kocaeli and Schneider Electric's plants in Yunusemre district of Manisa and Çayırova district of Kocaeli.

After all of these strikes were banned by the Presidential Decree No. 9231 published on 14 December 2024, Birleşik Metal-İş announced that they will not accept the decision to ban the strike and will continue the strikes. In line with this announcement, workers at Hitachi Energy, Grid Solutions and Schneider Electric factories continued their official strike as a wildcat strike. Workers at Arıtaş Kriyojenik's factory in Gönen district of Balıkesir started a wildcat strike on 19 December.

The strike at Arıtaş Cryogenic, which had been going on for 23 days, ended on January 10, 2025 with the agreement reached between Birleşik Metal-İş and MESS.

According to the statement made by Birleşik Metal-İş, the collective agreement was made for 1 year and wages were increased by 45 percent in the first 6 months. Thus, the lowest wage in the workplace reached 43 thousand 140 TL net and the highest wage reached 76 thousand 440 TL. The average wage at the workplace was 51 thousand 705 TL.